Devilish – Maureen Johnson

Okay, I love Maureen Johnson. Not only have I met her in real life (NAME DROP! she is friends with a friend – who this book is actually dedicated to!) but I just think she is a really fun YA writer.
Maureen describes Devilish:
At St. Teresa’s Preparatory School for Girls in Providence, Rhode Island, rebellious senior [...]

Hero – Perry Moore

I don’t remember where I heard about this, but I remember thinking “I don’t read enough books about boy teenagers or gay kids. I should do read this.” And so I did.
The description that reeled me in:
Thom Creed is used to being on his own. Even as a high school basketball star, he has to [...]

Song of the Sparrow – Lisa Ann Sandell

What a pleasant surprise! I had this book on my “to read” list for awhile, and I don’t remember where I heard about it. All I knew was that it was YA historical fiction, and that the cover art was very pretty (I am a sucker for girls with flowing locks and flowers in their [...]

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose – Lauren Willig

Okay. I am now caught up on my flowery spies.
Carolann was right – I would have been totally lost reading this one, if I hadn’t read the others. And I liked it! It wasn’t my favorite, and it surprised me by not having a deflowering scene. But of course, there was an improbale love match, [...]

The Deception of the Emerald Ring – Lauren Willig

My apologies. I started this series and read two books and forgot to write about them. I liked the first in the series, so it explains why I also enjoyed the 2nd and 3rd – because it is almost exactly the same story as the first, and the two of them are almost identical to [...]

The Masque of the Black Tulip – Lauren Willig

Doesn’t say much about this book that I forgot to blog about it. Not that I didn’t like it – it was just very, very familiar. So familiar in fact, that I can give the review in my next post.

The Schwa was Here – Neal Shusterman

Okay, okay – enough Shusterman, I get it. I really liked his other books, so I picked up this one.

From School Library Journal
Eighth-grader “Antsy” Bonano recounts how his accidental relationship with three quirky characters winds up being mutually beneficial. The catalyst in this social collision is Calvin Schwa, a classmate who has an almost supernatural [...]

Downsiders – Neal Shusterman

A long, long time ago, when I was a mere undergrad – I read a book about “The Mole People” – an anthropologist’s account of a group of people who have chosen to make a life under NYC, in the subway tunnels, etc. I becamse enamored with the concept – people leaving the “rat race” [...]

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation – Lauren Willig

I don’t know why its taking me so long to post my newly-read books lately, but it is. I read this almost two weeks ago and sadly, it was the last book I read for awhile. (I got a pretty bad cold and the siren call of both House and Law and Order was too [...]

The Bermudez Triangle – Maureen Johnson

Who doesn’t love Herzy’s famous author friend, Maureen Johnson? I think what I like best about her books is that they are all good (am I a lit crit genius, or what?) but they don’t have really any super discernable formula feel. I picked this one up without even reading the back cover because – [...]